#CRESCENT #VENUS: Yesterday in Bayside, New York, Elias Bonaros saw a bright silvery crescent in the daytime #sky. It wasn't the Moon. "It was Venus!" says Bonaros, who photographed the second planet in broad daylight:

Like the Moon, Venus has phases, and that is why it sometimes looks like a crescent. The next two weeks are a good time to observe this phenomenon. On Aug. 13th, Venus will pass almost directly between Earth and the sun--an event astronomers call "inferior conjunction." Between now and then, Venus will be turning its nightside toward us, transforming itself into a dark disk outlined by a curved sliver of the planet's sunlit cloudtops.

At closest approach on Aug. 13th, Venus and the sun will be separated by a little more than 7 degrees. This means careful daytime shots of Venus will be possible.

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